Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp Realism (2025)

Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Secret Life (2005) with Special Guest Hubert Sumlin Music

Posted by at Jan. 14, 2022

Few others besides avant-garde composer/instrumentalist Elliott Sharp could record a collection of blues songs and make them sound like a new genre altogether, a sort of blues/folk/jazz/new age sound with droning keyboards, slinky reverbed vocals, sinuous guitar parts, and angstful horns. The album is by turns haunting, sexy, volatile, and soothing

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Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris - Zuhour (2025) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by at May 20, 2025

Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris - Zuhour (2025) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 66:25 minutes | 689 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Zuhour (flowers in Arabic) is an album of improvised pieces by the duo of guitarists Ayman Fanous and Joe Morris. While firmly rooted in the free jazz idiom, the pieces veer into unexpected territory, including flamenco and musique concrète. Both guitarists employ a wide array of techniques, from traditional plectrum approaches to fingerstyle and extended techniques.

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Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris - Zuhour (2025) Music

Posted by at May 20, 2025

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Elliott Sharp - Die Größte Fugue (2023) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by at Jan. 22, 2023

Elliott Sharp - Die Größte Fugue (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:34:01 minutes | 933 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

One may imagine Ludwig von Beethoven in the 1820s in ill health and nearly deaf, bitter and lonely with his economy in tatters, and clinging to his delusions of nobility.

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Elliott Sharp (with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot) - Err Guitar (2017) Music

Posted by at Aug. 12, 2017

Elliott Sharp (with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot) - Err Guitar (2017)
guitar, free jazz, free improvisation | 1:05:55 | MP3, 320 kbps | 151 MB
Label: Intakt Records

Last summer in Elliott Sharp’s recording studio in Manhattan, New York guitarist Sharp spent a day with guitar colleague Mary Halvorson and another with Marc Ribot, legendary guitarist of Tom Waits, The Lounge Lizards and Marianne Faithful. The result was a series of recordings that could only be created by friends. They represent the great art of guitar playing by three exceptional musicians looking for new sonic adventures in search of the sound of our time. “I hear in their playing both a step into an unknown future and wild growth from a deep past,” says Elliott Sharp. “The contradiction is resolved in improvisation – the transcendent sonic path of the now.”

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Elliott Sharp - Tranzience (2016) Music

Posted by at Aug. 2, 2016

Elliott Sharp - Tranzience (2016)
Contemporary Classical | New World Records NW80778-2 | 2016 | 59:49 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Liner Notes | Various File Hosts | 297 MB
JACK Quartet; New Thread Quartet; Either/Or, Richard Carrick, piano, conductor; w/Elliott Sharp, electroacoustic guitar/Joshua Rubin, clarinet; Rachel Golub, violin; Jenny Lin, piano

Mathematics and the various sciences are just ordered ways of looking at and analyzing all of the raw data supplied by the universe. It's all about mappings and correspondences. At the same time, my work often takes a speculative and irrational/intuitive approach. It includes both the ordered and rational, the intuitive and irrational, and the acoustics of the ear. - Elliott Sharp

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Orchestra Carbon - Elliott Sharp Edition Vol. 4: Rheo-Umbra (2013) Music

Posted by at July 23, 2024

Orchestra Carbon - Elliott Sharp Edition Vol. 4: Rheo-Umbra (2013)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 262 MB | 45:33
Genre: Classical | Label: Neos

Recorded and originally released in 1996, Rheo-Umbra is a two-part composition by Elliott Sharp for a typically bizarre ensemble consisting of electric harp, electric bass, two bass clarinets, percussion, sampler, string quartet, and electric guitar (along with the Slab, a somewhat guitarish instrument invented by Sharp himself). The first six minutes of "Rheo-Umbra 1" are built on a repetitive theme that is carried by the string quartet and muttered about, commented upon, subtly undermined and sometimes supported by the others.

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Elliott Sharp - ERR Guitar (with Mary Halvorson & Marc Ribot) (2017) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by at May 7, 2019

Elliott Sharp - ERR Guitar (with Mary Halvorson & Marc Ribot) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 65:26 minutes | 659 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Last summer in Elliott Sharp's recording studio in Manhattan, New York guitarist Sharp spent a day with guitar colleague Mary Halvorson and another with Marc Ribot, legendary guitarist of Tom Waits, The Lounge Lizards and Marianne Faithful. The result was a series of recordings that could only be created by friends. They represent the great art of guitar playing by three exceptional musicians looking for new sonic adventures in search of the sound of our time. "I hear in their playing both a step into an unknown future and wild growth from a deep past," says Elliott Sharp. "The contradiction is resolved in improvisation - the transcendent sonic path of the now."

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Elliott Sharp – Concert in Dachau (2008) Music

Posted by at Nov. 6, 2013

Elliott Sharp – Concert in Dachau (2008)

Label: Intakt |cat. no. CD 149

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Elliott Sharp Aggregat - Quintet (2013) Music

Posted by at Nov. 7, 2013

Elliott Sharp Aggregat - Quintet (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 51:36 min | 110 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Clean Feed

The first Aggregat edition was a rather conventional trio with a hard bop matrix, something very unusual when the leader is someone like Elliott Sharp. Yes, the guitarist who, in “Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!”, brought back Thelonious Monk’s jazz to the avant-garde, but is generally committed to a syncretic mix of urban idioms going from blues and rock to contemporary writing and experimental procedures. In that first recording, titled as the name of the present band, he played mostly saxophones (tenor and soprano) and bass clarinet, only occasionally fingering his first instrument.

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